by lifeLinux on May 27, 2011
If you store private information on your Linux system and you want to prevent other people who use the system from viewing your private files, you need to password protect these files. Solution is to use following commands to encrypt or decrypt files with a password.
by lifeLinux on May 27, 2011
Neither the zip nor the unzip utilities are included in the default install of Linux. To install them from shell prompt, you must be a root user and type following two commands to install zip and unzip program.
by lifeLinux on May 25, 2011
Under Linux operating systems use the dmidecode command to check system BIOS information. The output from the dmidecode command include the BIOS version, Bios release date, BIOS vendor, BIOS language and other BIOS characteristics available on the system.
by lifeLinux on May 24, 2011
A cron is a utility that allows tasks to automatically run in the background of the system at regular intervals by use of the cron daemon. Crontab (CRON TABle) is a file which contains the schedule of cron entries to be run and at what times they are to be run. This can be quite […]
by lifeLinux on May 21, 2011
Sometimes, I need to kill a process in Linux. So, how can I do that ? In this article, i will explain how do I kill process in Linux.
by lifeLinux on May 19, 2011
There are many tools to get hard drive information such as smartctl, hdparm, hwinfo… In this article, i will use hdparm command which provides a command line interface to various hard disk ioctls supported by the stock Linux ATA/IDE device driver subsystem.
by lifeLinux on May 19, 2011
There are two types of group. First is primary user group and other is secondary group. Group infomation is stored in /etc/group file contains basic group attributes. This is an ASCII file that contains records for system groups.